On Assistance to the Poor

by Luis Vives and Juan Luis Vives

'I wish we were able to eliminate poverty completely in this city' Those words written by Juan Luis Vives, a Spanish humanist living in Bruges in 1526, could have been written in the late twentieth century. The urban problems of sixteenth-century Bruges are very familiar to the modern reader: poverty, overcrowding, crime, the problems of the mentally ill, and the issue of the responsibility of government for the care of the poor. Published in 1526,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802082890
• ISBN13: 9780802082893
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"